down the rabbit hole
January 14, 2009
Long story short - I was looking for something else and found these. It's telling that I can no longer remember what that other thing is.
I had no idea that Etsy was chock-full of cross stitch patterns.
Yes, yes, you can get some renderings of common characters whose legal status is, at best, questionable. But there's a host of other cool stuff. Like beefrank's dedications to all things Whedon; TeaPartyRevolution's Gothic Lolitas; Larripin Labs' portraits of Schrodinger*, Kaku and Feynman; ExpressionEssentials hip-ass owl; Xavier Crafts' interpretations of Arabian rugs** and Maggiemwdesign's interpretations of the same; Nrapture's Cthulhu; tinymodernist's mid-century chairs***; andwabisabi's chandeliers and kiwi fruit****; and knottyyarn's movie quotes *****.
It makes the pattern I'm working on, pictured below, seem lame.
I love it anyway.
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* No word yet on when the cat-in-box companion piece will be completed.
** which blow my mind, frankly. Especially this one.
*** for the Hub: the Barcelona is here.
**** and a martini glass.
***** I had to google the last one.
You just had to do that. *sigh* And I thought I was so over cross stitch.
Posted by: Trish | January 15, 2009 at 11:43 AM
Is there a particular pattern that moves you? And I find that xstitch gives my poor achy thumb and index finger a rest.
Posted by: Adrienne | January 16, 2009 at 09:36 AM
The Arabian rug interpretations, particularly: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19041688
Posted by: Trish | January 19, 2009 at 03:02 PM